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Subject:	Re: SMB symlink compatibility between Cygwin, Windows XP, and Windows 7
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Brian Alexander wrote:
>
> Anyone have any other ideas of how to make a shortcut to a SMB path that
> will work in both Windows XP and Windows 7, and is also traversable by
> cygwin?
>

I'm not familiar with CYGWIN=winsymlink to understand what it does; I
can guess but I've not reviewed the code.  You could use junction
points for directories.  Junction points should work for both XP
(regardless of the service pack) and Win7.

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